What's new

May 2023

• 🐞 Improved error messages returned via API when using Cloud Storage functionality

Mar 2023

• ✨ Add ability to customise formating of Y-axis tick labels for Bar Chart (v2).

Feb 2023

• 🐞 Fixed bug where when width option was set to null, components would not maximise horizontal width
• ✨ Added better validation and more descriptive error messages for setting the width and columns options
• ✨ Added new Options page which centralises and details common options better, such as width and columns
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Table component not providing descriptive errors for incorrect JSON schemas

Jan 2023

• ✨ New redesign of Hybiscus website for 2023 🎉
• ✨ Download button for PDFs on Usage page of Dashboard now opens reports in new tab
• 🐞 Fix bug with icons in Card component no longer working
• ✨ / 🐞 Long Y-axis tick labels (due to using strings) no longer get cut off. Resolved by having the chart dynamically resize to accomodate the longer text. Applies to Horizontal bar chart.

Dec 2022

• ✨ Added support for login / sign up using Google account
• 🐞 Fixed bug with CORS settings on API

Nov 2022

• 🐞 Fixed bug with incorrect default value for curve_format for Timeseries Chart
• ✨ Added new Timeseries Chart component for visualizing timeseries data
• ✨ Added more customisation options for data visualization / chart components
• ✨ Added vertical / horizontal margin and column spacing options to Row and Section components
• ✨ / 🐞 New Vertical Spacer component introduced to address bugs with Spacer component in multi-page reports
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Table component not accepting integers and floats as cell values for headings and rows.
• 📦 v1 release of our NodeJS SDK with TypeScript, ESM and CommonJS support.

Oct 2022

• ✨ New cell level control and column span features available in the Table component.
• ✨ New grouped bars option available for Bar chart (v2) component.

Sept 2022

• ✨ Powerful instant search now available throughout Hybiscus documentation.
• ✨ Cloud Editor now saves your schema to your local storage, allowing you to carry on from where you left off in the same browser after closing tabs. A 'Reset to default schema' is also available in the right-click context menu.
• ✨ Ability to disable the information header at the top of PDFs. See Customising report
• ✨ Support for creating landscape PDFs is now generally available. See Customising report for more details.

Aug 2022

• ✨ Support for pagination on multi-page PDF reports

July 2022

• ✨ Launch of the new Hybiscus Docs and Blog sites
• ✨ Added horizontal and vertical margin options to the Image, Table and Text components.
• ✨ Added extensive new layout and configuration options to Text, Table and Row components.
• ✨ Added text sizing, text colour, background colour, rounding, etc. options to Image component
• ✨ Added text sizing, text colour and background colour options to the Text component
• ✨ Added markdown support to the Image component

May 2022

• ✨ Added support for the width key to the Section component to support placing them inside a Row
• 🐛 Fixed bugs with the auto-generated Python code in the Cloud Editor
• 🐛 Fixed bug with Cloud Editor not generating JPG previews via the keyboard shortcut

April 2022

• ✨ Beta release of the Hybiscus ☁️ Cloud Editor that let's you design and develop PDFs directly in your browser. Try it out now and share feedback with team!

March 2022

• ✨ New ProgressBar component for visualising progress in a process
• ✨ Added option for caption in Image component
• ✨ Users can now view their usage including quotas and links to download previously generated PDFs directly in the dashboard under the new Usage section.

January 2022

• 📊 New more powerful chart components with greater control over layout and design (Bar chart, Line chart, Horizontal bar chart)
• 🔗 Support for webhooks to notify you once your reports are ready

December 2021

• ✨ Support for uploading your PDF reports directly to your ☁️ cloud storage provider
• ✨ New DoughnutRing component for visualising data on a radial axis.

November 2021

• ✨ New PageBreak component added for multi-page PDF reports
• ✨ New Spacer component added for vertical spacing
• ✨ Support for providing a custom logo to use in place of the report title for premium plan users (Startup and Enterprise).
• 🐛 Fixed issues with bold text and lists specified via Markdown not working in the Text component

October 2021

• ✨ New API endpoint /api/v1/get-remaining-quota added to get details on remaining quota on demand
• ✨ New headers added to /api/v1/build-mode (X-SINGLE-PAGE-REPORTS-REMAINING, X-MULTI-PAGE-REPORTS-REMAINING) response that provide details on remaining quota
• ✨ New ScatterChart component added